Lulu Marketplace

Companion piece to Rem Koolhaas's "Delirious New York." Project for David Reinfurt's PDF Visual Studies course at Columbia University's GSAPP, Spring 2010. Madelon Vriesendorp’s images in “Delirious New York” are widely considered by architectural historians to be the subtext, or commentaries, to Rem’s work. My project hopes to subvert this established relationship, creating an inverse dialogue in which Rem’s text becomes the captions to Madelon’s projects. By first privileging Madelon’s cover art with a proportion more suitable to her original piece, the narrative of the book’s history is constructed through the use of a semi-fictional screenplay, one that illustrates the genesis and parallels the content and context of “Delirious” through Madelon’s collections, postcards, and paintings from her early years on into the present day.